NDLEA arrests woman with drugs as Ivorian excretes 82 cocaine wraps at Kano airport

The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, said its operatives person foiled bizarre plots by 2 cause traffickers to determination consignments of cocaine and opioids hidden successful their tummy and fake babe bump done the Mallam Aminu Kano International Airport (MAKIA) Kano and the Seme onshore borderline successful Lagos to Europe and different destinations.

NDLEA stated that a Kano based businesswoman, 35-year-old Rabi Muhammad, was intercepted by its officers astatine the departure tarmac of Seme onshore borderline with a protruding tummy connected Monday.

This was made known successful a connection connected Sunday by Femi Babafemi, Director, Media & Advocacy, NDLEA Headquarters, Abuja.

According to the statement, the fishy was nabbed portion attempting to transverse to Cotonou successful Benin Republic.

Babafemi disclosed that a afloat assemblage search, however, revealed that her gestation was fake and her babe bump was designed with a pinkish coloured calabash utilized to conceal 3,200 capsules of tramadol, which she tied astir her tummy and was taking to Cotonou to sell.

Same time successful Kano, NDLEA operatives astatine the screening constituent of the departure hallway of MAKIA intercepted a 41-year-old Ivorian, Michael Gohouri (also known arsenic Anunwa Onyinye Michael) during the outward clearance of passengers connected Ethiopian Airlines formation ET940 to Milan, Malpensa via Addis Ababa. When helium was taken ...